"Milton Friedman deserves to sit alongside Adam Smith, Ricardo, Marx and Keynes as one of the greatest economists of all time." Go here to read Charles Goodhart's nuanced and well-informed obituary.

UPDATE: Here are obituaries from the The Independent and The Times. And here is Samuel Brittan's fine appreciation of Milton Friedman with some especially good stories about him.

Otto M. Kerner - 11/16/2006

Although one can question his merits as an economoic theorist, I always had the sense that, as a human being, Milton Friedman was, at heart, "on our side" and one of the good guys. He'll be missed.